Liberal Arts Services

Talk: "Phrenology versus Neuroanatomy in 19th-century Britain"

Fri, December 6, 2013 • 12:00 PM • WAG 316

History and Philosophy of Science series presents a talk by Angela Smith:

"Phrenology versus Neuroanatomy in 19th-century Britain"

Angela Smith is a PhD candidate in the history department at UT-Austin. She is writing a dissertation on the origins of Robert Chambers' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), an early theory of evolution.

--All talks will be on Fridays at 12:00 p.m. in WAG 316.

Sponsored by: Departments of History and Philosophy

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